I pace and read as my natural reading habit - just maybe 10 steps or so one way and then amble back the other way for as long as I read. It's not a concerted effort thing, just casual walking. To answer your q: it's helpful. Also can't sit and read

As far as the treadmill, though, one time in highschool dropped a textbook and actually reached down between my feet to grab it (because dumb) and did a full-ass somersault off the back of the treadmill in the middle of a gym - so as long as you supress the urge to grab a book you might drop, think you should be fine. Haha

Domestic violence against women as one topic and misogyny as component. My mental health took a mega-shit as a result of suddenly noticing and being unable to avoid everything I've just let roll off my back all these years. Reading books about feminism isnt helping. I can't avoid books written with men as a main character. Books that pass the Bechdel test happen to sometimes belong in genres I don't enjoy. And on, and on, and on... Ugh.

No works off the top of my head, sorry. I had this whole long response with an example of a classmates writing assignment they got a good grade on, but it's all so stupid. Nobody who gets published writes like that, so it probably doesn't matter

This is more of a general suspension of disbelief issue, but when the author is clearly more sheltered than their own characters/written situations, such that the world they've built isn't something anyone would really be interested in and also the way the characters and react within that world arent really believable -- again, because the author hasn't either been through those emotions or lacks the empathetic imagination to write someone who has.

Tbf, haven't seen it too much, in professionally published works, but when I played editor for my peers in university... Holy shit.

It wasnt her family -- just herself at the age of 21.

Edited to add: I don't think anybody knows what became of her family back in Russia, to this day.

I pace back and forth in whichever room, while reading. Always have for as long as I can remember. Was in for a nice surprise when started wearing a FitBit, lol.